Trustee Kenneth Brown

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra" (Jimmy Johnson) #CACommunityColleges Motivation Monday #CCCAdvocacy2021 El Camino College

A HUGE "Thank You!!" to all of those who supported me and my efforts for re-election to the El Camino College Board of Trustees! The results are now official and I will take the Oath of Office on Monday, December 21 at 4pm. #Inglewood #LaderaHeights #ElCaminoCollege #WorkingForStudents #ResponsiveToTheCommunity #ResponsibleForTheCommunity #TrustedByTheCommunity

Announcing the May 2021 commencement speakers for the class of 2020 & 2021 Angela Davis - Spelman Bryan Stevenson - Morehouse Stacey Abrams - Clark Atlanta Bakari Sellers - Clark Atlanta ... Danai Gurira - Spelman #theatlantauniversitycenter #HBCU #AUC #SpelHouse #SpelmanCollege #MorehouseCollege #Grad2021

El Camino College Presents: Walk-in COVID vaccine clinic on Saturday! The DaVita Kidney Care Center will host walk-in COVID-19 vaccinations at the DaVita St. Francis Dialysis Center in Lynwood on Saturday, April 24 and Saturday, May 1. Free Moderna vaccines will be administered to anyone over the age of 16. No appointment is needed. Participants receiving their shots during this two-Saturday event will be given scheduled appointments to receive their second shot. The Los Ang...eles County Public Health Department announced that individuals who are 16 years and older are invited to visit any of the several mass vaccination sites located throughout the County to receive free COVID-19 vaccinations through April 26. El Camino College encourages students and employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to visit one of these sites if not yet vaccinated. https://filecache.mediaroom.com//DaVita%20Community%20COVI

Today, the Beach Reporter covered the collaboration between Manhattan Beach Unified School District’s MBX Foundation, an afterschool/summer school enrichment program, and El Camino College. Please check the link for the full story.

Los Angeles is starting its comeback by safely reopening museums, indoor dining, theme parks, outdoor live events and more. Now, the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board hopes to inspire lovers of L.A. to start their comeback, whenever they are ready. Big ups to Discover Los Angeles for tapping young musicians and performers from #Inglewood, Morehouse College, and the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles!!! :)

Two El Camino College Students Named Semifinalists for 2021 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship El Camino College pre-engineering major Brenda Fernandez Martinez and biology major Sara Kassab were recently named semifinalists for the highly selective 2021 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship....Continue reading

Vaccine Eligibility Opens to 16+ Starting April 15 Individuals aged 50+ are currently eligible to make an appointment to be vaccinated. Individuals 16+ will be eligible to make an appointment starting on April 15. Please visit the LA County Vaccine Site or MyTurnCA to view eligibility criteria and to make an appointment. More info: https://www.gov.ca.gov//state-expands-vaccine-eligibility/

El Camino College Board of Trustees Cliff Numark speaking out against AAPI hate crimes. Another example of our Board leading in the community! #StopAsianHate

El Camino College has selected four finalists in a nationwide search to become Superintendent/President of the El Camino Community College District. In order to hear from each candidate, El Camino College will host four forums open to the public via Zoom. College faculty, staff, administration, students, and community members are invited to attend. All of the forums will be recorded and available for viewing after the live events. These recordings will be posted to each can...didate’s biography webpage along with an online form where you can share your feedback by May 6. Wednesday, April 28, 1 p.m. Dr. Santanu Bandyopadhyay Wednesday, April 28, 3 p.m. Dr. David Dore Thursday, April 29, 1 p.m. Dr. Stephanie R. Bulger Thursday, April 29, 3 p.m. Dr. Brenda Thames https://www.elcamino.edu/presidential-search/

The El Camino College Business Training Center (BTC) has a proven track record of improving the bottom line for every kind of business and industry, large or small. The BTC offers Certification Review TrainingTraining programs for Certified Reliability Training (CRE), Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, (CSSBB) Certified Quality Engineer (CQE). #cccadvocacy2021 #WorkforceWednesday... https://www.elcamino.edu/btc/index.aspx

Duke to require students to be vaccinated for fall semester All students will have to be vaccinated for COVID-19 before they can enroll for the fall semester, President Vincent Price announced Friday. The policy covers all undergraduate and graduate students who intend to be on campus for any amount of time starting in the fall, and students will have to present proof of their vaccination to Student Health before enrolling. Duke will accommodate documented medical and religio...us exemptions. Looking ahead, we know that widespread vaccination will be the only way to facilitate a return to normal and robust campus life, Price wrote in a message to students, faculty and staff. Duke has offered all students and employees the opportunity to be vaccinated, Price noted. He urged those who have not yet been vaccinated to schedule appointments as soon as possible. Read more: https://www.dukechronicle.com//duke-university-vaccines-re

UCLA report Digging Deeper Beyond the School House: Black students in 14 L.A. County school districts face serious equity barriers, study finds Black students in Los Angeles County continue to face a multitude of barriers to an equitable education, including concentrated poverty, high suspension rates and housing insecurity, a UCLA report released Wednesday found. Researchers focused on 14 school districts in the county that serve at least 800 Black students to understand how... various factors are leaving behind Black children, particularly those considered vulnerable. The report by the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools builds on a previous study that found schools serving Black students lacked critical resources counselors, nurses, social workers, highly qualified teachers and students’ home and community environment played a role in their academic success. Analyzing data collected before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, researchers found that two underlying factors the concentration of economic inequality for many Black families and fluctuating Black student enrollment in districts that have not historically served them shaped student experiences. In order to understand the academic hardships Black students face, the report says, educators need also to consider health and environmental factors. https://www.latimes.com//black-students-la-county-school-d

Join the Silicon Valley Education Foundation tomorrow and have a Bold Conversation about race and equity.

Free College Tuition Deadline is April 30 Enrollment Fees waived for first-year students from the Class of 2021. LOS ANGELESPublic high school graduates from the Class of 2021 are eligible to apply for the South Bay Promise, a program that will pay the enrollment fees for up to first-time, full-time college students who commit to attending El Camino College in the fall semester immediately after graduating high school. ...Continue reading

Transcript Ransom....yeah, it's a thing.

The Los Angeles Times times talked to seven members of Gen Z about the culture war with millennials, living their lives online during the pandemic and what they wish older generations understood about them. Check out the full article at the link below! --- Do you see yourself represented in pop culture? Kenneth Brown (he/him), 21, Inglewood native, professional musician and junior at Morehouse College: You shouldn’t judge a generation off a handful of people you see on soc...ial media, because you can’t really buckle down on one person to carry a generation. #MorehouseCollege #MorehouseLA #ICYOLA #GenZ https://www.latimes.com//genz-millennials-culture-wars-int

Another excellent piece from Dave Zirin: "NCAA championships always have the same losers: its unpaid athletes" https://www.msnbc.com//ncaa-championships-always-have-same On Sunday, a champion was crowned as Stanford outlasted Arizona for the women's NCAA Division I basketball national championship. Monday night it's the men's turn, when the undefeated Gonzaga Bulldogs take on Baylor....Continue reading

All of this. Right here. Not just Congress!! --- Congress has become a deeply divided, almost toxic work environment in part because of the pro wrestling mentality too many members have adopted, putting showmanship ahead of statesmanship.... You may be surprised to know that most of the right-wing House members who spend endless hours on Fox News smearing Democrats actually want to be back-slapping buddies with us when the cameras are off. Some have defamed me on national television or by tweet and then, within a day, approached me in a hallway or on the House floor, smiling and wanting to chat me up. They seem surprised when I don’t want to share pleasantries; to them, they’re just playing the game. Last week one representative told me we were due to grab dinner again, as we had before the insurrection. I was stunned. This guy tweets about me and slams me on Fox News at every opportunity. Many of my Republican colleagues also don’t see the people they represent as constituents to serve; they see fans to entertain, thinking this will help them win re-election. But Congress shouldn’t be like WWE wrestling. You can’t smash a chair over someone’s head in the ring, then hang out backstage like it was all an act, and still expect to make any real progress on behalf of the people who elected us. The preoccupation with putting on a show often devastates the relationships required for bipartisan cooperation. https://www.nbcnews.com//republicans-smear-me-fox-news-the

Actor & ECC Grad William Allen Young Honored With Statewide Distinguished Alumni Award Star of stage and screen receives prestigious Community College League of California honor ---... William Allen Young, acclaimed actor and director and alumnus of El Camino College, is one of three individuals to be honored with the Community College League of California’s prestigious 2020 California Community College Distinguished Alumni Award. Young graduated from El Camino College in 1977 with an associate degree in speech communication. He transferred to USC on a full scholarship, where he was twice ranked the No. 1 college speaker in the nation. Young earned a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric and debate, then continued his education at Cal State Los Angeles, where he earned a master’s degree in sociolinguistics. Attending a community college was one of the best decisions of my life, Young said. During the time I spent at El Camino College, I was mentored and guided by passionate faculty members and counselors who educated and inspired me, helped me develop my talents, and prepared me to transfer to the University of Southern California and realize my life’s dream. Young is a prolific actor, with over 100 TV, stage, and film credits to his name. His performances include two Academy Award-nominated films, A Soldier’s Story and District 9, and he is recognized by millions of fans as Frank Mitchell, the tough-but-loving father on the TV series Moesha; as Judge Ratner on CSI Miami; and most recently as Dr. Rollie Guthrie on the CBS medical drama Code Black. The success and national fame I have achieved in my professional career is due in large part to those formative years I spent learning and growing at the community college level, Young said. There is no greater education than that which prepares you for success in the world. Thank you, California Community Colleges, for being there for all of us. In 2016, Young was named an El Camino College Distinguished Alumni. He is the recipient of the NAACP Outstanding Social Achievement Award and was deemed a Goodwill Ambassador by President Clinton, among other awards. Young is also the founder and president of the non-profit The Young Center for Academic and Cultural Enrichment, which serves the needs of low to moderate-income households in underserved communities in California. We’re so pleased that Mr. Young has received this well-deserved honor, said El Camino College President Dena P. Maloney. He truly has led a life of distinction, from the academic excellence he demonstrated as a young man to his successful acting career and his passionate advocacy for education. We’re so proud he’s part of the El Camino Warrior family. El Camino College welcomed Young to campus in 2019 as the keynote speaker at the 72nd Annual Commencement Ceremony. KB: To register and for more information about the 2020 Annual Convention, visit www.ccleague.org/AC20.

Let's get to work!! I think if your motivations are for the students and the community of the district, nobody’s going to have any issues at all, right? Whether it be the taxpayers, or the faculty, staff, administration or the board, [if] your motivation and your heart is wanting to get things done for the students of El Camino, nobody’s going to have any issues, Brown said.

ELECTION UPDATE From the El Camino College The Union: As election night comes to an end in Los Angeles County, voters have put Kenneth Brown, Trisha Murakawa and Katherine Steinbroner Maschler in the lead for El Camino College Board of Trustee in Areas one, three and four, according to the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters.... In Area one, Kenneth A. Brown leads George A. Turner Jr. by 40.24%, according to the LA County Registrar. As numbers continue to roll in, Brown feels hopeful for the official results. I’m optimistic. I was optimistic going into the election and during the campaign. [And] so far, it looks like the voting population of Inglewood and Ladera Heights are resonating with me. But again, it’s still a little early. And so I’ve not broken the bottle of sparkling cider just yet, Brown said.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Hey Everyone! Less than a day to go before the election. I wanted to ask you all for your support, and if you have already voted, please let your friends and family know that I need their vote for my re-election to the El Camino Board of Trustees. Serving as a member of the ECC Board of Trustees has been one of the great honors of my professional life. That is why I am thrilled to be running for re-election, so I can continue to play a role in the endeavor of this critical w...ork. During the past three years, we have celebrated a significant accomplishment of increasing our student degrees and certificates by 54%! To continue this momentum, my top priorities are to: Maintain El Camino’s excellence in Academic Preparation and Vocational Training Increase student success and completion rates Communicate clearly and regularly to inspire students to achieve their educational goals Support faculty and staff in their efforts to foster a positive campus learning environment for all students Protect taxpayer dollars by providing transparency, oversight, and accountability Now more than ever, our students are counting on us to expand their opportunities and access to education. And my commitment to creating a bridge to access is unwavering. In addition to focusing on student equity and the completion of education goals, we will continue to highlight and emphasize non-traditional pathways to success, including nurturing strategic partnerships that support adequate funding. I am eager to continue advocating for El Camino College, Inglewood, and all of our students as I have done so for the past nine years. I look forward to your vote! For more information on me and my legislative priorities, please visit my website: www.KenBrownECC.com

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DID YOU KNOW.... This is my Uncle Edward McCrary, III. Uncle Ed is responsible for me being on the El Camino College Board of Trustees today. I first got a call from Inglewood Unified School District Board Member Alice Grigsby who alerted me to the position, but my next phone call was to my Uncle so I could learn more about ECC culture. He helped me decide on whether I should run and when I did, kept me on my toes with issues affecting the campus community. Born in Kansas Cit...y, MO, Ed graduated from San Diego High School when his family moved to Southern California early in his life. Ed received a B.S. in Psychology from Cal State Los Angeles and soon after graduation joined the United States Army. He was stationed at Fort Polk, Louisiana and while there he was a Psychometrist, a soldier's analyst. Once his military service ended, Ed returned to school in California where he earned an M.S. in Psychology from Pepperdine University. Following graduation, he joined the LA County Probation Department where he met another lifelong buddy, Keith Brown. While at the Probation Department, Ed established his own Marriage and Family Counseling practice. Ed worked there for several years before discovering his true passion, teaching. He became a professor at El Camino College and taught psychology there for more than thirty years before his retirement in 2006. Hundreds of students passed through his classes, where he often became a mentor and trusted advisor. Ed is fondly remembered by many of his students: some who became friends and others who became colleagues.

I understand the Congresswoman completely! Giving the side-eye to some of these people who would attack their own people and community for some silver coins. #TheyWouldRatherSwitchThanFight #SlaveCatchersNotWelcome #NoStringZone

I think I may have an election watch party...

This is a start... "El Camino College’s Academic Senate presented its proposal to mandate anti-racist/equity professional development for all faculty, during their Oct. 20 meeting."

I have to admit, with all the things going on at work, teaching, and campaigning, I needed a "Wellness Check". It was so cool to get together with these two Future Board members David Kartsonis for ECC Trustee - Area 4 and Siannah Collado Boutte to talk about the elections, what is happening around our community, and the upcoming El Camino College Presidental search. Full video here: https://youtu.be/GLztEyKhu7g

Man, I loved this movie!!

I feel someone needs to send this to their family member or neighbor. Do your homework, fam!

Nothing to see here except more evidence of what dropping affirmative action has had on African-Americans in California's public universities. Numbers below, story here: https://edsource.org//dropping-affirmative-acti/642437/amp